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DotA Tuskarr Guide, Strategy & Build | Ymir the Tuskar

DotA Tuskarr: Ymir The Tuskarr Guide, Strategy & Build. Ymir is a Strength hero which added to the Sentinel in DotA 6.70. This post will provide you with the Tuskarr Skill Description, the Tuskarr Guide, the Tuskarr Strategy, the Tuskarr Item Build and the Ymir the Tuskarr Skill Build. If you play Dota 2, check Dota 2 Tusk Guide!

Hailing from the Borean Tundra, Ymir is one of the wisest Tuskarr warriors. Acquainted with years of warfare experience against raiding Ice Trolls and Nerubian Spiders that beset his village during his younger years, Ymir eagerly volunteered himself into the ranks of the Sentinel to help halt the notorious rise of the Lich King. A specialist in controlling the element of ice, Ymir's prowess lies in surprising enemies with frosty magics. His arsenal not only consists of propelling Snowballs and hurling shards of solidifying ice, but also conjuring massive Snowstorms that greatly impede his enemies' battle efficiency.

Tuskarr compresses 5 shards of ice into a ball of frozen energy that damages all enemies in comes in contact with. If the ball comes in contact with an enemy hero or reaches its maximum range the shards are released, creating a barrier that lasts for 5 seconds.

Travel AOE: 200
Cast Range: 1500

Damage: 70/140/210/280
Shards Duration: 5

Manacost: 120
Cooldown: 18/16/14/12

Note: Shards block path

Has quite damage, but the ability to block the path is the most useful one. The range is high and allow you to harass from far away.

Snowball

Tuskarr and any nearby allied heroes roll in a quickly growing snowball towards the target enemy unit. Any victims caught in the snowball's path take damage and are briefly stunned; the final target takes 40 extra damage and 0.25 extra stun duration.

The snowball moves at the relative move speed of the heroes within.

Damage: 40/80/120/160 ( +40 each level on the final target)
Stun Duration: 0.25/0.5/0.75/1.0 ( +0.25 each level on the final target)

Snowball is for early ganking while Ice Shard is for your main nuke. Walrus always taken whenever without any question. Maximize Snowball and then Frozen Sigil. Sigil will be useful for team clash which usually happen on mid-late game, hence taken start on level 10.

Urn of Shadow - It will be first to picked up cause you already have 2 of its components on your item slots. Gives you HP, damage, and mana regeneration which you need on early game.

Bottle - is the best source of regen on Tuskarr. Especially his lack of mana. Because he's a ganker and he will badly need a fast replenish item. One slot, 600 gold, fast regen (both HP and Mana), and a measure against mana burners, makes bottle more effective and cost-efficient than other early regen items.

Power Tread - Provide you with stats and damage as well. and ofcourse some good additional AS.

Janggo of Endurance - It has aura of AS and MS. its endurance can add more of AS and MS to your team. Perfect for gangking. Use it after your snowball hit your target. Its aura will be more useful if you gank with your teammates.

Preseverence - Solve the mana problem and can be upgraded to BFury.

Orb of Venom - Optional item. Get this item if you have a hard times chasing your enemies. Useful on early game when your sigil's level still low.

Vladimir's Offering - also optional item. You can get this item if you have a more melee hero in your team and your teammates dont intend to make it. Has a good support auras (lifesteal, damage, armor, and mana regeneration).

Monkey King Bar - Your mana problem has been solved, so its time to get more DPS to your Tuskarr. MKB has +88 damage which can add some very nice damage to Walrus Punch (4x critical if your opponent's HP less than 50%). Its IAS increases your DPS and minibash wil help you to chase when your sigil is activated.

Assault Cuirass - is a smart route to take, supporting the rest of the team with the positive and negative auras to shift the tides towards team's favor. IAS and Armor adds to DPS and survivability at the same time.

Sange & Yasha - An all in one item (provide additional HP, damage, AS, MS, and Maim ability). Your EHP is increase as well as your probability to chase and kill your enemies when combined with your skills).

Stygian Desolator - Boost your DPS. Thanks to +60 damage and -6 armor reduction. But no EHP at all.
note: You can combine this with vladimir to add your survivability.

You can pick this hero when your team needs disabler, tanker, supporting chaser, team battle initiator, or chase assister.

You need to be supported by:
- Babysitters :
to get a good farming on early game
- Close Range Disablers :
Snowball can provide them with free kellen's dagger. Good disabler teammates can make an effective gank on every phase of the game.
- Close Range Nukers :
They (such as Nevermore and Crystal Maiden) can give a good combo. But in some circumstances only (no disabler).

Beware of his counter:
- Close Range Disablers:
The more you close to them, the more you close to death.
- Silencers and Manabreakers:
can't do anything except do normal attacks. You will choose to gank them real fast without fail if you want to success. Including Doom Bringer, a hero with an awesome spell which is troublesome for A spell depended hero like Tuskarr.
- Evaders:
Blinkers or windwalkers. Hard to chase and can pop-up from nowhere to gank you.

You can choose any starting lane. Just deny and farm by last hit as best as you can. try to harass and dominate the lane. You can do that with the help of your teammate. Don't push the lane unnecessarily. If you have been holding a solo lane and you are above level 7, you might want to go gank a low level hero. Don't do ganking alone because It will be more effective if you do that with your teammate. Before doing that at least you must have a boot and a bottle on your slots.

What you should be doing in mid game is ganking a lot with your partner. Because your main role is making enemy's carry hero suffer so they cant be threats to your team on late game. Try to find chances to gank every time you have in this phase of the game. Snowball can be the initiator, follow with ice shard which can be the nuke and the trap, finish with walrus punch. Some additional hit will be enough to make em dying. You can use frozen sigil to slowing down your targets if they still have HP remain on them. But normally use frozen sigil first before snowballing so you can prevent enemies for running away.

In the late game, your role is a bit different as Mid-Game's: to slow and pick off certain heroes. Use frozen sigil when the teams clashes to slowing enemy's team and focus on your remaining skill to carry heroes. But always remember to hit enemies heroes as much you can using Snowball and Ice shards (because they have an AOE damage). Walrus punch to kill them or at least disable them.

Obviously, he is going to get a nerf, come on, Slark was alright when he was first released, because he had small HP, but now, Tuskarr, wtf, come on, str that is a semi-carry/semi-ganker, and maybe, one of the best initiators.

i like this hero.. but sometime it too imba... with it slow... then a snowball... and a ice shard which can deal quite lot of damage and create a annoying barrier.. and the ulti is too OP.. Hope ICEFROG can make it a balance hero... ^^

WAY too OP...in the hands of a novice its still gg....I mean his spells w/o his ulti make him a great hero, slow, snowball + AoE ulties = ownage...but then Walrus Punch...@level 16 you have what, around 100 base attack. So thats 550-700 damage with 14 second CD that slows for 4 seconds, and costs 100 mana on a STR hero, so just imagine if you have like +100 damage or something, easy to get, but would mean your ulti does up to 1100 damage AND slows with 14 sec CD and 100 mana cost...IMBA OP, nerf this guy HARD

well, i've tried him, and i feel that the game is eaaasy. so this hero is a little bit unbalance. first: his snowball skill, it said that it ms is same with the combine ms of all hero within. but if tuskar alone, the ms of snowball is higher than tuskar ms. it cast range is about 1000 or 2000 range, but when it turn snowball, it chasing anywhere, like barathrum, but it can brings allies hero. well, ice frog can rebalanced this skill.second: his ulti, what a damage, but fast cooldown? cmon, 300 damage, 2,5 crit (even 4), and slow 40% 4 sec + tiny throwing? make the cooldown longer, or reduce the slow thing. with skill 2 for chasing, it's enough.and tuskar is the only hero that can slow, stun, chase, movement blocker, and toss. no escape right? heheerr, raigor with shiva, phase boots, stun, slow, movement blocker, chasing, but no toss. well, maybe it's a christmas gift from icefrog, haha. thx

again? hehe it's chasing ms is higher than bara. bara is limited to 522. tuskar snowball is maybe 1700? 5 hero buy boots and together within swowball. and i check again, snowball ms when tuskar alone is same. maybe i see the snowball is big so, well, just eye illusion

gtfo wayyyyyyyyyyy too imba. whoever says that he sshouldnt get changed, uninstall warcraft and gtfo of the rts community. becuase he is sooo good you shouldnt be thanking icefrog, you should be begging him to nerf this hero.

new heroes are much powerful than older it should be some balancefor first skill on Icarus should be shorter dive distances for example 900 rangesun ray is nearly imposible to target well for Tuscarrice shards should be decreased or damage or ice duration both are too powerful compare this to centaur warchief damage/stun ratiofrozen sigil with shivas guard makes enemy almost stunedkeep up the good work ICEFROG but please make some balncesall the best from Drow

Above said: "this is the best hero ever." but i may ask you, how is your idea of being the best? imbalance = best? come on, im not talking about his ulti or snowball stuff, only his 1st skill already make me want to quit playing dota. fking hurt and block and sometime even stuck?! crazy hero. rebalance is necessary, remake is needed.

How the f*ck did his ult make it into the patch. It's f*ckin retarded. Free 4x crit + 300 dmg at half life? That's like insta kill on half the intels and agi lategame. ON A 14 SEC CD!Icefrog is a f*ckin retard.

this just makes me laugh. wtf is this shit doing in a balanced dota game? i guess this is why it took so long for all the heroes to get balanced. icefrog, either buff ALL THE HEROES in dota, or nerf this rigged ONE HERO.

well, it's the hero's first appearance anyways, no need to say too much about it. The fact that his skills will be changed or nerfed to fit with dota's balancing gameplay is always a certain, so y'all don't need to spam much the rec8 thing anyways. Dota 6.70 is just a introduction map, public testing phase i think. the balanced one is always the later version of it, isn't it?

Anonymous December 27, 2010 6:53 PMU dumb douche.. His skills are pretty much imbalanced if you'll observe. How can you even counter a hero that can make you a dental floss in the EARLY, MID, and LATE game? I bet you will get very pissed off when an IMBA player playing and IMBALANCED hero will rape you in the ass all day... STUPID RETARD

yes, critical hits are useless early game. this hero is not actually imba. just fight this guy with some range hero (viper), he will probably lose. also naga will easily defeat this hero, just take note that walrus punch is a single target skill

@above 2,3 PFFthahaha idiots.. what about AOE stun noobs? what about ogre magi , admiral, sven, knight davion tiny centa... tusk has no power versus themand if they are joined by a carry in battle it is gg... they pwn tusk very fast.. tusk is no ovp hero only if it gets feeded but as i said above there are a lot of heroes who get imba if they are fed up... so please... learn to play with him and shut up...

Recreate Tuskarr,.... the ultimate of Tuskarr is so ImBA! less cooldown and realy powerfull damage..... and Tuskarr is cool in Ganking.... Especially 5on5.... but there are other heroes that are Imba right?? like Troll,Mortred,Balanar,etc. if they get in late game, they will gonna kick your Ass !!!

Let's discuss 'bout the most useful orb fx if u want to play tuskarr as hard carry:1- Mask of Madness ! (i like it)2- Maelstrom -->Mjolinir (i like it)3- S&Y (mm i have to think bout)4- Dominator -->Satanic (occasional)5- Diffusal (dont like it)6- skady (i like it, but not really viable) 7- desolator (mm i have to think bout)

Oh dudes, i think all of you are those fucking mimimi-imba-hero-flamer..If you got some skills you gould easily kill tuskarr.Also you forgot that dota isnt game made for 1on1 it´s a game wich works on teamplay and if you weren´t so stupid kiddis´you wont flame here...Btw Why there is no flame against Mortred? Her ulti is without cooldown and crits in endgame with over1.5k :O

@above, you are looking one sided, if you look at the other team on a 5v5 with tuskar on the enemy surely there's not much you can do. just come in snowball and let another stun or maybe even aoe stun and from there you're done, while maybe your team might have killed one hero on the opposite, remember Tuskar's ult cd... thats enough to kill atleast a hero. Mortred has her ult, but Tuskar as a Combo- skills...

if theres an ultimate hero, its void and troll, no hero can match this two, if u really know how to play dota and icefrog will always make adjustments with a new hero so stop whining, and lastly tuskar depends on mana for the skill combo right? even naga siren can kill this or other hero that has illussions and drain his mana using item or skill like magina. try to think and use other heroes. i bet keeper of the light can sustain this hero if u know how to use his skill.

@force staff man, every hero has his own rival try using other hero and if u cant use force staff so dont use it, u cant use force staff to any hero or skill, just like the other skills, theres no perfect skill or item, meaning everything has his own limitations, if theres a perfect hero or weapon or item then you are IceFrog LoLs!!! To all stop whining, use ur brains there are so many heroes in dota. even ezalor can kill this hero and if ur problem is snowball, use the 2nd skill of ezalor, the longer the travel the more mana drains and how can tuskarr kill u if he has no mana?

only noob like u will be caught in that kind of combo, do u think all heroes/players will be caught on that kind of combo sheeshh!!! practice man... u can say any combo u like but if u are a real pro, theres always a way. like what they said if he has no mana how can he use that combo.instead of complaining why dont u practice. noob try this, use ezalor and use the 2nd skill,after the first combo snowball lets see if he can still use the dagon. every hero has his own weaknesses but not for troll or void in late game. this two heroes will eat your tuskarr. manta diffusal chrono ur done!!!. even magnataur and slardar can kill this, stun lock!!!

well dude, tuskar is now balance, if you all keep complaining so you must be a NOOB, with an effective items you can easily pawn that tuskar, use your own small brain to think a strategy to pwan tuskar, dont keep complaint like a retard

every hero has its limitations and weakness,so please stop posting bad comments on him. he maybe strong but still,he may someday find his greatest counterpart. just like what happened unto another imba hero slark. as well as unto troll, raigor, naga siren, lycan, doom, trax, ursa,my fav huskarr and the rest who also have their counterparts.each hero is great and unique;you just simply need to get the best out of them:)continue playing,enjoy all of you sirtnx to icefrog.-pilot_geass

""the problem is, if a pro plays tuskar. he can easily own early game and will make sure there will be no chance for late game to come." - this is true if pro vs. noob, but not for pro vs. pro"

Not really. With the new Smoke of Deceit the pros will just own wards so that you either nerf the opposing warder (Sentry Wards cost a lot of money if you're placing it on every ward) or get the kill, so there is no real counter and if you all do have one then tell me. Doom can't counter him for sure. Tuskarr will just rofl in and get the kills after which he's useless anyway...

"delete this hero from tavern.. just put this hero on FUN TAVERN!!! January 5, 2011 10:35 PM"

PLEASE STOP PLAYING DOTA NOOB, TUSKAR CAN EASILY BE PAWN IN THE GAME IF YOU USE YOUR OWN SMALL FUCKING RETARD BRAIN TO THINK A STRATEGY AND EFFECTIVE ITEMS WITH SUITABLE HERO TO COUNTER HIM,SHEESH I HATE THIS KIND OF NOOB WHO KEEP COMPLAINT, STOP PLAY DOTA PLEASE NOOBS!!!!

yes, i agree with comment above, in DotA there are no such things that a hero cant be counter at all, each heroes have their own weaknesses, so it up to the player how to counter their enemy, for pros they have many ways and strategy with a good teamwork to own the game, but for the NOOBS???? they only can complain cause they had been raped by the pros like slut hahahahaha NOOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

well here all bunch of NOOBS, tuskar is not imba if u got an effective items and suitable hero to counter him, keep on complaining NOOBS.. NOOBS always complain and always being rape by pros thats y they keep complaining, agree? hahahaha NOOBS

agree, only noobs will complain and imba is for noobs only. so starting now anyone who complains is a TOTAL NOOB!!! accept the fact if u can kill this hero and keep saying tuskarr is imba therefore u r a BIG TIME LOSER in dota. stop playing dota try other games.

Not the most IMBA but i believe that he is the best ganker hero with the snowball....nC AOE skill and nC ice shards that block path(another ganking skill) and insane ulti for late game with insane cooldown...Not IMBA but just good enough to make a whole team gankers...Like him...and Tuskar is the only hero that can slow, stun, chase, movement blocker, and toss. No escape right? hehe...

The Ice Shards are quiet effective as it deals damage as well as blocks in an "U" shaped area between them, which makes it extremely difficult to escape.Only limited hereos can escape it like morph or spectre.Tuskar overall can be said as quite effective.

Retards. Get a ghost stick, he can't punch you. Or better yet, get blademail. More armor means punch deals less damage, and if you want, just smack his punch right back at him.I never had a problem fighting against Tuskar. That's because I think first before I complain.

to^it's still to IMBA u dumb.. i think u always use tuskar in every game. that's why u don't want that hero got remaked. such a noob. everyone can use that hero. what's the fun of playing DotA if u almost always win / kill many people with an IMBA hero?? stupid

play'em you'll see what joy it brings you...or maybe not..cause you dont know how to play tuskarr...so you want'em to be remaked...already released 6.70b and 6.70c what changes should be made?if there were, icefrog changed it in 70b and 70c already or he balanced him and gave us 70d... the real question is ARE YOU GOOD ENOUGH TO BEAT THE HELL OUT OF TUSKARR, ARE YOU GOOD ENOUGH TO CONTOL HIM?? you say imba, remake, of the hero..AN IMBA HERO EQUALS IMBA TEAM MATES TOO...tuskarr wont be fed if there is no feeder, no good teammates?? WHAT IMBA?? imbalanced for the fact that every game you have an enemy tuskarr you quit on GARENA and you cant do anything about the dude...DAMN suckish reason...too imba you say,.

right on dude!! if he was imba he would have been remade and icefrog would have given us 70d or 6.71 already.=D 2 thumbs up!TUSKY aint imba! sometimes youre just going to be a good dota player to own him..Noob suckish reason for imba tuskarr is failure to win against him..=D yeah! own!

right! the dude above with the nosebleed english is right! tuskarr aint imba. player prowess plus experience and specially brains can make tuskarr be at youre command or enslave him if he's youre enemy!

HAH? U SAY TOO IMBA?? EARLY COME IN 6.70 THIS HERO IS IMBA. BUT NOW... PEOPLE HAS KNOW THIS SKILL AND TUSSKAR PLAY ROLE.... HMMH.. EASY TO BEAT HIM.... JUST PLAY WITH YOUR BRAIN AND U CAN BEAT ANY HERO... EVERYTHING....

idiots... icefrog doesn't make them anymore , blizzard does...and tuskarr is easily countered by techies or lothar or any silence hero. however, tuskarr is imba in combo with centaur,2nd level first blood,only thing that can actually counter them is an axe/healer combo